temper

Meaning

1. A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
2. State of mind; mood.
3. A tendency to become angry.
4. Anger; a fit of anger.
5. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
6. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
7. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
8. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
9. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
11. Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

disposition

mood

bad temper

quick temper

natural disposition

petulance

will-power

bite out

drop forge

fit of anger

draw the temper

heat-treat

fit condition

proper condition

dioposition trait

quality property habit

wrathiness

drawing-back

tempering drawing

blazing off

emotion

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛmpə/

From Middle English temperen, tempren, from Old English ġetemprian, temprian, borrowed from Latin temperō (“I divide or proportion duly, I moderate, I regulate; intransitive senses I am moderate, I am temperate”), from tempus (“time, fit season”). Compare also French tempérer. Doublet of tamper. See temporal.